Answer:
William Berkeley was significant in the Chesapeake region in the 17th century because he gave special treatment to his friends on the council, and led to rebellion in Virginia.
Explanation:
Sir William Berkeley was the English governor of the Province of Virginia and one of the Lords who owned the Province of Carolina. On his plantation, he experimented with the cultivation of various species of plants, adhered to a friendly policy towards the Indians and was the initiator of the creation of the Virginia's House of Burgesses.
Berkeley’s policies did not suit some members of the Virginia Assembly, and Berkeley sought support from local planters, for which in 1642 he initiated the creation of the House of Burgers, with the advent of which the Virginia Assembly became a bicameral body.
During his second term, William Berkeley established a regime of personal power in the colony, by which elections were not been held in Virginia for 14 years. In 1676, clashes between the colonists and the Indians again. Governor Berkeley refused to protect the settlers, and they organized their own armed group under the command of Nathaniel Bacon. Having defeated the Indians, Bacon rebelled against Berkeley, and his group burned down the capital of the colony, Jamestown, but soon afterwards he died from dysentery, even before the arrival of troops sent against him from England. The Royal Commission, investigating the causes of the uprising, pleaded guilty to Governor Berkeley, and he was recalled to England.
